The Square and the Tower

Ferguson, Niall • Boek • paperback

• Samenvatting
  What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson, the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of imagining the world.
  
  Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks - leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati?
  
  The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age. But in The Square and the Tower Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Far from being novel, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the computer in the role of the printing press. Once we understand this, both the past, and the future, start to look very different indeed.
  
  Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/300405/the-square-and-the-tower/#M6Il50LAmhhgZtZ0.99
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Paperback
  Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
  Formaat : 129mm x 197mm
  Aantal pagina's : 400
  Uitgeverij : Penguin UK
  ISBN : 9780141984810
  Datum publicatie : 01-2018
  
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